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New Kingdom Egypt
- 1. New Kingdom The temple and empire builders
- 2. New Kingdom Egypt The invading ________ ruled until 1570 B.C. Around 1600 B.C. Egyptians drove the Hyksos out and established the ____________ which lasted from 1570-1075 B.C. Around 1570 B.C., the world’s first _________ ruler came to power. _____________ spent her reign expelling the Hyksos from Egypt. Around 1472 B.C. another ________ ruler came to power –_________________. Queen Hatshepsut actually took the title of __________. She commissioned sculptures that portrayed her with a masculine figure as she attempted to consolidate power. She spent her reign encouraging _______ instead of fighting. Hyksos New Kingdom female Queen Ahotep female Queen Hatshepsut pharaoh trade
- 3. Around 1425 B.C. the pharaohs began to focus on _______________. The Pharaoh Thutmose III went ____________________________ into ________ and conquered it. Kush, also called _________, was an independent kingdom ________ of Egypt. It became part of ________________ Egypt with the conquests of Thutmose III. The people of _____ began to __________________________which means that they worshipped Egyptian gods and learned to write in _________________. Kushite princes even began to think of themselves as ______________ princes. empire building beyond the First Cataract Nubia Nubia south New Kingdom Nubia adopt Egyptian culture hieroglyphics Egyptian
- 4. Meroë Kush
- 5. New Kingdom pharaohs did not build large pyramids. Instead, they _______________ in _____ walls and______________. Most New Kingdom pharaohs lie entombed in the _______________________ near Thebes in __________________ The most famous of these pharaohs is King _________________ whose tomb was found unplundered. The gold and bejeweled _____________ found in King Tut’s tomb speak to the great ____________ of New Kingdom pharaohs. built small tombs cave underground Valley of the Kings Upper Egypt Tutankhamen artifacts wealth
- 6. Valley of the Kings
- 19. Another famous pharaoh, __________________, may have been the pharaoh during the time of the Hebrew _________. During the reign of Ramses II, many grand __________ were constructed. The Temples at ______ and at ________ in Upper Egypt are only two of the many temples that Ramses II constructed to honor his reign. These may have been built by ____________ labor. Ramses’s temples all feature colossal statues of himself, giant ______________ and ______________ carvings that honored events in his reign. During Ramses II’s reign, Egypt was more than a country, it was an _____________. Egypt’s empire included ________ in the south and ________________ and Syria in the north. Rameses II Exodus temples Karnak Luxor Hebrew slave columns hieroglyphic empire Nubia Palestine
- 20. Temple at Karnak
- 23. Temple at Luxor
- 31. From 950-730 B.C. a group of invaders from the deserts northwest of Egypt invaded and established an era of ______________. By 751 B.C. the princes of ________ were tired of Libyan rule. They believed that the____________________________________. The Nubian prince________ wanted to ________________________ and he drove the Libyans out of Egypt. From 751-671 B.C. , the ______________________ both Nubia and ________ However, by 671 B.C. the war-like ______________ who had already conquered Palestine swept down into Egypt, and Egypt became part of its vast empire. Libyan rule Nubia Libyans had destroyed Egyptian culture Piankhi restore Egyptian culture Nubians ruled Egypt Assyrians
- 32. Libyans
- 33. Nubia
- 38. Kingdom at Meroë The _____________ moved their kingdom south to the city of ____________ which is located near to where the _______________ into the Blue and White. At _________ the Kushites built a _______________ kingdom based on the manufacture and trade of ________. The tiny Kushite kingdom of ____________ became as__________ As New Kingdom Egypt from its ________ trade. Nubians Meroë Nile divides Meroë very wealthy iron Meroë wealthy iron
- 39. Persians _______________ the Great was the Persian ruler who began the expansion of the Persian empire beginning around 550 B.C. After his death, his son conquered ____________ in the 530s. The Persian empire stretched from ______________ in the southwest to ______________ in the northwest near the Black Sea east to _____________ between the Tigris and Euphrates and even further to the east as far as the _____________ under the rule of Darius. Cyrus Egypt Egypt Anatolia Mesopotamia Indus River
- 40. They controlled this vast empire through _____________ rule. Each province could practice its ______________, speak its ____________________, and maintain its ______________________. Persians also remained in control by creating a ________________________ of satraps and other paid employees who were loyal to the emperor. Persian bureaucrats were spies, _________________ leaders and ___________ collectors. Darius built the ______________ to connect his vast empire and to facilitate __________. tolerant own religion own language own culture bureaucracy military tax Royal Road trade
- 41. Persians
- 42. Zorastrianism The Persians did have their own unique religion: ________________________ The founder, Zoroaster, taught that there was a god of ________ and a god of ___________. After death, people were_______________ and then sent to either ________________ or a __________________. The _____________ is the ______________ . Concepts of judgment day, heaven and hell are also present in the modern religions practiced around the world today. Zoroastrianism light dark judged paradise fiery pit Avesta holy text
- 43. Zoroastrianism